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Thank goodness for these security cameras near the Little Avenue railway train tracks in Barrie, Ontario. These security cameras catch a few angles of this Tesla Model S getting some serious height and distance. The 46-year old driver and his passenger were treated for minor injuries, and the drier was charged with unsafe driving. The crash (off-camera) happened after landing and crashing into the Assikinack Public School parking lot. Full videos after the break. (more…)

This magnetic gadget tricks the Tesla Autopilot system in to thinking that the driver has their hands on the wheel. Why would you want to do this? Well, the short answer is so that you can let the Tesla do the driving without having the autopilot system shutoff when your hands aren’t on the steering wheel. No need to over think this one, it is a bad idea. I hope this crafty inventor has a good legal team.

If you re still sold on this overpriced gadget ($199) head on over to the manufacturers website. Video of this device in action after the break. (more…)

If the latest Tesla Gen2 Roadster makes it to market (slated for 2020) it will be the fastest production car to date, with a 0-60 mph time of 1.9 seconds. That is insanely fast but will cost you around $200,000. 0-100 mph is expected to be just 4.2 seconds and the quarter mile would be under 9 seconds! Top speed wasn’t officially posted but Elon Musk hinted at 250 mph+. The specs are almost too good to be true. The battery is a massive 200kWh pack with a 620-mile range per charge. Video of the Tesla Second Generation Roadster after...

In traditional Elon Musk fashion a tweet has been shot out letting the world know that they can start purchasing solar roof tiles starting later this afternoon. No more ugly solar arrays for homeowners.
Tesla will begin production with two of the four styles of solar tiles, smooth glass and textured glass. The French Slate and Tuscan tiles will be available later this year. Production for the tiles will begin at Tesla’s Fremont, California plant...

The Tesla is the only electric car company that is addressing the charging issue head-on. What other car company has a massive global quick charging network?
This is more about the United States even though Tesla is growing the Supercharger network worldwide. Currently Tesla has 2,636 Supercharger stations at 373 locations in North America. Impressive right? Well Tesla now plans to double this number by the end of 2017. Smart move considering the number of Model 3’s that will be hitting the road in the next few years.
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Autopilot Full Self-Driving Hardware (Neighborhood Short) from Tesla Motors on Vimeo.
The video above shows a Tesla with Autonomous driving is doing in real time. It is pretty amazing. The Tesla Motors autonomous software visualizes and color codes its world. Purple squares for street signs, green squares for in-path objects, red and purple lines for lanes, grey lines for road flow, etc…
There is so much data being...

As if the Tesla Model S wasn’t already amazing enough. I would argue it is the best car money can buy today. Well, it just got better. The newest Tesla Model S P100D (as in 100 kWh battery) has a range of 315 miles and a 0-60 time of just 2.5 seconds. Pretty much the fastest production car ever made (excluding the million dollar Porsche 918 Spyder and the LaFerrari). What is better than stomping on a Lamborghini with two kids seats in the back?
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Twin brothers Adam and Nathan Freise made this awesome Tesla Motors “Not A Dream” short video on their own time and money. The narration comes directly from a Nikola Tesla speech and seems to fit perfectly.
It is not a dream
It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering
Electric power can drive the worlds machinery without the need of coal, oil, or gas
Although perhaps humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the inventors...

It looks as if the rumors were true. The Tesla Model S has gotten a slight facelift in the latest refresh. The new Model S front end and headlights are more similar to the Model X now. The headlights are now full LED and are adaptive. There are also several new interior finish choices available online.
Some other new bits include the Tesla “bioweapon defense...

The cat is out of the bag. People were literally lining up to place a $1,000 deposit for the Tesla Model 3. The number of reservations as of Saturday April 2nd, 2016 was over 276,000! The $35,000 entry level pricing hits the mass market EV car price point. Any guesses on how high the deposit number will go? Some are saying 500,000.